Monday, June 17, 2013

In another release from the latest survey from Pew Research, we learn the unsurprising news that gays are more than twice as likely to be atheists or religiously unaffiliated.

When it comes to religion, the LGBT
population has a distinctly different profile than the general public.
Fewer LGBT adults have a religious affiliation. About half of LGBT
respondents describe themselves as atheist, agnostic or having no
particular religion (48%)─more than double the portion of the general
public that is religiously unaffiliated (20%). Young LGBT adults are
particularly likely to have no religious affiliation, a pattern that is
also found among the general public. However, compared with the general
public, a higher share of LGBT adults are unaffiliated across all age
groups. For example, among adults ages 18 to 29 in the general public,
31% are religiously unaffiliated, while roughly double that share (60%)
are unaffiliated among LGBT adults of the same age. And roughly
one-in-eight adults ages 50 and older in the general public are
unaffiliated (13%), compared with about four-in-ten (39%) of older LGBT
adults.